Bought these (retro) hardware today

Reply 29480 of 53276, by BSA Starfire

Posted on 2019-07-19, 14:54

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Bought these two 286 motherboards, sellers pictures.
Suntac 12 MHz

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NEAT 20 MHz.

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286 20MHz,1MB RAM,Trident 8900B 1MB, Conner CFA-170A.SB 1350B
386SX 33MHz,ULSI 387,4MB Ram,OAK OTI077 1MB. Seagate ST1144A, MS WSS audio
Amstrad PC 9486i, DX/2 66, 16 MB RAM, Cirrus SVGA,Win 95,SB 16
Cyrix MII 333,128MB,SiS 6326 H0 rev,ESS 1869,Win ME

Reply 29481 of 53276, by BSA Starfire

Posted on 2019-07-19, 15:08

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Should be with me next week, looking forward to having some fun times with 286, the generation I skipped at the time.

286 20MHz,1MB RAM,Trident 8900B 1MB, Conner CFA-170A.SB 1350B
386SX 33MHz,ULSI 387,4MB Ram,OAK OTI077 1MB. Seagate ST1144A, MS WSS audio
Amstrad PC 9486i, DX/2 66, 16 MB RAM, Cirrus SVGA,Win 95,SB 16
Cyrix MII 333,128MB,SiS 6326 H0 rev,ESS 1869,Win ME

Reply 29482 of 53276, by imi

Posted on 2019-07-19, 15:59

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so I got this rather nice looking gameport-midi cable from china today, and while the plugs and cable seem to be really nice quality there seems to be no components inside whatsoever unfortunately, just a plain cable-to-cable connection, does that even work? 😕

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Reply 29483 of 53276, by Srandista

Posted on 2019-07-19, 16:20

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You can have problems like described here: Issues connecting a Roland SC-55 to an old 486

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Reply 29484 of 53276, by buckeye

Posted on 2019-07-19, 19:51

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Bought this Quadro 900xgl 128mb AGP to upgrade my win98se rig. Hope I can pick the right drivers for it, anyone have experience getting it to play nice with games? Wonder if I can use the Rivaturner program to soft mod it into a GF4 4600 or whatever the equal is.

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Reply 29485 of 53276, by Bige4u

Posted on 2019-07-20, 02:35

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buckeye wrote:
Bought this Quadro 900xgl 128mb AGP to upgrade my win98se rig. Hope I can pick the right drivers for it, anyone have experience getting it to play nice with games? Wonder if I can use the Rivaturner program to soft mod it into a GF4 4600 or whatever the equal is.

Its equal to a GF4 Ti4600

http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=334&card2=135

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Reply 29486 of 53276, by hageir

Posted on 2019-07-20, 02:36

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Nice lookin' mobos 😀

imi wrote:
so I got this rather nice looking gameport-midi cable from china today, and while the plugs and cable seem to be really nice quality there seems to be no components inside whatsoever unfortunately, just a plain cable-to-cable connection, does that even work? 😕

midi401.jpg

imi, check this thread:
Joyport (DB-15) to MIDI cable

Find of the day (junkyard)

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It's got a metal badge on the back; "Department of Studies and Schoolsystems" -governmental

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Anyways, from the pile of ISA cards I found the other day in that dumpster
this one is intriguing me,
can anybody identify it?

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Reply 29487 of 53276, by PcBytes

Posted on 2019-07-21, 09:56

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BIG HAUL!

WD Caviar 2250 (sadly dead)

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WD Caviar 1210(working)

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Hercules 3D Prophet Radeon 9700 Pro (idk how much VRAM though)

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Epox EP-3VCM w/ P3 1GHz SL5DV & ECS G31T-M2 w/ Core 2 Quad Q6600

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Gigabyte GV-RX30S128D-B (Radeon X300, 128MB)

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"Enter at your own peril, past the bolted door..."
Main PC: i5 3470, GB B75M-D3H, 16GB RAM, 2x1TB
98SE : P3 650, Soyo SY-6BA+IV, 384MB RAM, 80GB

Reply 29488 of 53276, by PcBytes

Posted on 2019-07-21, 09:58

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cont'd

Gravis Gamepad Pro

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Chaintech(?) Geforce 2 MX200 32MB AGP

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"Enter at your own peril, past the bolted door..."
Main PC: i5 3470, GB B75M-D3H, 16GB RAM, 2x1TB
98SE : P3 650, Soyo SY-6BA+IV, 384MB RAM, 80GB

Reply 29489 of 53276, by Srandista

Posted on 2019-07-21, 10:40

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PcBytes wrote:

Hercules 3D Prophet Radeon 9700 Pro (idk how much VRAM though)

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128MB of course. 9700 Pro wasn't make as 64MB card, and you can easily find out, how much of VRAM R300 cards have (4 memory chips=64MB, 8 memory chips=128MB, one exception: 9800XT with 256MB within 8 chips as well).

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Socket A - Chaintech CT-7AIA, AMD Athlon XP 2400+, 1GB RAM, Radeon 9600XT, ESS ES1869F, Win 98

Reply 29490 of 53276, by PcBytes

Posted on 2019-07-21, 10:43

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Yeah, figured that out after I searched the PN number 😀

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Main PC: i5 3470, GB B75M-D3H, 16GB RAM, 2x1TB
98SE : P3 650, Soyo SY-6BA+IV, 384MB RAM, 80GB

Reply 29491 of 53276, by Bige4u

Posted on 2019-07-21, 15:34

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ATI 8500 64mb 3.3ns

Original clocks @ 275/275(550)... online reviews puts this particular video card @ 300/300(600) overclocked, but i will not be doing the same to find out, it was fun back in the day though, now i just run everything as is, this thing even rivals the GF4 Ti4400 video card.

Pentium3 1400s/ Asus Tusl2-c / Kingston 512mb pc133 cl2 / WD 20gb 7200rpm / GeForce3 Ti-500 64mb / Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 SB0100 / 16x dvdrom / 3.5 Floppy / Enermax 420w / Win98se

Reply 29492 of 53276, by Artex

Posted on 2019-07-21, 15:35

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FINALLY! 😎 😎 😎

Creative CT6200 (3D Blaster VLB) 2MB (New, Unsealed) (1995)

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Reply 29493 of 53276, by derSammler

Posted on 2019-07-21, 15:56

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I love how they packed in all games that would ever support the card. 😜

Reply 29494 of 53276, by keropi

Posted on 2019-07-21, 16:03

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amazing find Artex, kudos!

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Reply 29495 of 53276, by Grzyb

Posted on 2019-07-21, 16:38

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Fascinating...
I'm trying to find what it is, but the results are ambiguous...
Is that card based on some rebranded GLINT? Or is it some special chipset, only based on GLINT?

Nie tylko, jak widzicie, w tym trudność, że nie zdołacie wejść na moją górę, lecz i w tym, że ja do was cały zejść nie mogę, gdyż schodząc, gubię po drodze to, co miałem donieść.

Reply 29496 of 53276, by Artex

Posted on 2019-07-21, 16:40

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Grzyb wrote:
Fascinating...
I'm trying to find what it is, but the results are ambiguous...
Is that card based on some rebranded GLINT? Or is it some special chipset, only based on GLINT?

Some good info here! http://vintage3d.org/3dlabs.php#sthash.XPCkGggm.dpbs

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Reply 29497 of 53276, by Grzyb

Posted on 2019-07-21, 18:19

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OK, so it's a stripped-down GLINT 300SX.
BTW: that page claims it's "the only texture mapper for VL-Bus" - but what about the NVIDIA NV1 ?
NV1 has a texture unit as well - http://www.gpuzoo.com/GPU-NVIDIA/NV1_2_MB_VLB.html

Nie tylko, jak widzicie, w tym trudność, że nie zdołacie wejść na moją górę, lecz i w tym, że ja do was cały zejść nie mogę, gdyż schodząc, gubię po drodze to, co miałem donieść.

Reply 29498 of 53276, by Artex

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Grzyb wrote:
OK, so it's a stripped-down GLINT 300SX.
BTW: that page claims it's "the only texture mapper for VL-Bus" - but what about the NVIDIA NV1 ?
NV1 has a texture unit as well - http://www.gpuzoo.com/GPU-NVIDIA/NV1_2_MB_VLB.html

I don't think I've ever seen NV1 in a VLB form factor. Not sure if this combo exists tbh. Article may be incorrect.

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Reply 29499 of 53276, by blurks

Posted on 2019-07-21, 19:41

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Artex wrote:
Creative CT6200 (3D Blaster VLB) 2MB (New, Unsealed) (1995)

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That was the one from hard1k. I'm going to laugh so hard at the one who spent 5k on this beat up box... 🤣

Admittedly it looks better in your pictures. eBay really made it look like a f**king wreck.

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